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The Film: Writer/director David Cronenberg is primarily known for his extensive work in the sub-genre of body horror films, which has included such memorable projects as "The Fly," "Videodrome," "Dead Ringers," and "The Brood." However, in 2005, he delivered what is quite possibly his least Cronenberg-like film, but in this critic's opinion, it's also the very best one he's made thus far in his career. Working from a screenplay by Josh Olson that adapts the 1997 graphic novel

The Film: "Aeon Flux" originally started as an animated sci-fi series consisting of three seasons that aired on MTV from 1991-1995. It was received rather well by critics, who praised its creativity, characters, and themes, making it no surprise that a live-action version was eventually brought to life on the big screen. However, things didn't go quite as well for the film as they had for the series, with critics & audiences being quick to dismiss it, and its box office perfo

The Film: Writer/director Zach Cregger truly rose to prominence just three years ago with his 2022 feature "Barbarian," which had a number of problems plaguing it, including a lack of focus, an irritating structure that had the stories stopping & starting over and over, and an over-reliance on the characters being dumber than usual for a horror film. However, despite all of these issues, many people enjoyed it anyway, leading to great anticipation as to what Cregger was going

The Film: Back in 2021, screenwriter Derek Kolstad attempted to replicate the great success he had achieved with "John Wick" by delivering a rather similar film called "Nobody," which featured Bob Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell, a seemingly-regular man trying to live an ordinary life with his family after retiring from a career of being an assassin for the intelligence community. He tries to make it work, but soon finds himself pulled back in after getting entangled with some dang

The Film: When last we saw Ethan Hunt and his close-knit team of allies in " Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1 ," they were attempting to stop a computer program known as "The Entity" from taking over the world and potentially destroying it, with Ethan eventually getting his hands on the key needed to get at the program's source code and leaving us on quite the cliffhanger. Despite being a little on the verbose side, with it over-explaining its somewhat weaker-than

The Film: Writer/director Ari Aster has had a series of ups and downs in his relatively short theatrical career thus far. He started in 2018 with the intriguing "Hereditary," which had a few issues with its third act, but had a good sense of mood & atmosphere throughout. Unfortunately his next two efforts, "Midsommar" and "Beau is Afraid," were rather bland projects that were heavily over-extended and showed that Aster didn't have a great understanding of pacing. This lead to

The Films: Back in 1984, beloved master of horror Wes Craven created a monster, or more specifically, a notorious killer known as Freddy...

The Film: When it comes to sports films, the single biggest issue that filmmakers face is finding a way to make it be about more than...

The Film: When Todd McFarlane's "Spawn" debuted in comic book form way back in 1992, the titular antihero immediately became a rather big...

The Film: It's hard to believe that it's already been an incredible 27 years since the last theatrical installment in the "I Know What...